François Pujolas, the French Ambassador to Ghana and Charles Adu Boahen, Deputy Minister of Finance have led a technical workshop on Corporate Governance for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs).

Traders in the Greater Accra Region are bitterly complaining about low patronage of goods and services six months into the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.

The Monitory Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) is expected to announce its decision on the current state of the economy later today.

Beauty and love for creation were given for free; so is the touch of the earth, its moist and fertile soil. Often, a zoo is a place reserved for seeing such beautiful and wonderful creation of God. It helps in relieving a person of stress.

A latest Bank of Ghana (BoG) report available to Business Day indicates that the highest average interest rate paid on deposits by commercial and universal banks operating in the country is a little over 17 per cent.

The Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has inaugurated the reconstituted boards of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA) and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

The Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced (or rather re-introduced) to replace the sales tax regime in December 1998, after the first attempt failed in 1995. Since the VAT in Ghana will be 20 years in 2018, we must transcend the current public debate on very basic principles of VAT regimes and, rather, bring the tax in line with global best practice. We will review some of these basic principles before commenting on issues arising out of the current debate.

The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) has assured its stakeholders of continued commitment to providing quality and innovative e-solutions towards promoting trade facilitation, business development, revenue mobilization and Ghanaian business competitiveness.

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for the empowerment of small and medium operators in the textiles, apparel and accessories sectors as a deliberate job creation strategy.

Head of Department for Payment Systems at the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Settor Kobla Amediku, has indicated that movement of money from circulation into the banking system makes the country's monitory policy very effective.

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By Ernest KISSIEDU

To help fight against pirated textiles in the country, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has announced that it has developed a new policy direction to help make the textiles sector competitive.

The Public Procurement Authority (PPA), the public sector procurement regulatory agency, has introduced an electronic platform called Electronic Government Procurement (EGP) in collaboration with the World Bank to eliminate fraud in procurement and ensure transparency in public procurements in the country.

There are indications that the ban on 'Ghana Must Go' bags by Air France and KLM presents a potential risk of a trade war between France and the West African Sub-region, Nana Kweku Owusu Sekyere, a security analyst has suggested.

Tax treaty experts of at the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and in West Africa have had their skills in Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) sharpened by the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law.

China's Sinopec International Petroleum Services Corporation (SIPSC), which is a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group and the contractor for the now-operational gas processing plant, has been found out for engaging in transfer pricing manipulation.

The Republic - A Ghanaian pilot who labored in the employ of Aero Surveys Limited, operators of private local airline Starbow, has allegedly been victimized in a sack drama that appears to be tinged with racism.

Deputy Trade Minister Robert Ahomka-Lindsay has asked Ghanaians in the diaspora to stop whining about conditions at home when they return to do business.

The National Tripartite Committee has announced a 10 percent increase in the daily minimum wage.